[oe] [meta-networking] ntp: disable automatic panic shutdown for ntpd

Joe MacDonald joe at deserted.net
Mon Sep 16 18:44:18 UTC 2013


[[oe] [meta-networking] ntp: disable automatic panic shutdown for ntpd] On 13.09.16 (Mon 09:06) Andreas Müller wrote:

> Taken from [1]:
> 
> "However, if the difference between the client time and server time is greater
> than the panic threshold, which defaults to 1000 s, the daemon will send a
> message to the system log and shut down without setting the clock."
> 
> On RTC-less or 'fresh' systems with unpredicatble inital date ntpd will stop
> with work undone (note: I did NOT find the message mentioned above - so it
> took long way to fix). This is a wide use case for using NTP in production:
> No need for initial datetime setup by some operator.
> 
> [1] http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.1/debug.htm
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com>
> ---
>  .../recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service           |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service
> index bd87b1e..eb9c030 100644
> --- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service
> +++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/ntp/ntp/ntpd.service
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ After=network.target
>  [Service]
>  Type=forking
>  PIDFile=/run/ntpd.pid
> -ExecStart=/usr/bin/ntpd -p /run/ntpd.pid
> +ExecStart=/usr/bin/ntpd -p /run/ntpd.pid -g
>  
>  [Install]
>  WantedBy=multi-user.target

Merged, thanks.

-- 
-Joe MacDonald.
:wq
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